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[[>.> I’m kinda ignoring/disrupting everyone’s events to drag them to do something else. Hehehehhe.]]

Marcus was walking through the streets of the village. He was enjoying all the sights and sounds and even found some things to be a bit more… interesting than he had imagined. He would walk about the place and come up to a small stall with various clothes and displays around. He would smile looking about from one place to another, like a child at a toy store.

Crossing his arms, he began to look about and think on the items that were present. He had, after all, seen so many different pieces of clothes in his life that he figured he had somewhat of an eye for these types of things. The moment he began to look about, 2 people instantly shot into his mind. He began to look about for a moment and soon his eyes fell upon a set of clothes towards the back of the stall. They were… different to say the least and something that kids today would love. He smiled a bit and looked to the shop keep.

“Heeey. That’s nice. Can I get those two.” He began to ramble off the sizes of the clothes. The shop keep looked the man over and smiled a bit. He would give Marcus the outfits but then take out a kunai and threaten him when he tried to pay. Apparently, the Kage’s money wasn’t good at this shop.

[[the one wearing the cat ears is Elrude's, the one wearing the bunny ears is for Yokou]]

Marcus simply smiled and nodded and began to take the clothes in a tightly wrapped box.

He would head through the streets of the fair, purchasing all manor of snacks and food as he went. Some that most kids here would know and some that would be exotic. Marcus had invited several stands from far away lands to broaden the horizon of the kids.

And soon, his quest was over… or rather just beginning. He had been looking for someone in particular and decided that it’d be fun to travel with this person. She seemed to have a little gathering around her as well. Marcus would move to the boy named Shadow and place the boxes on his head. He also had a bag on his back which he was carrying the treats in. He would reach in and pull one out that would look like a colored cloud. He would undo the wrapping and shove it into Shadow’s mouth. “Here ya go kiddo.”

Marcus then would turn to Shinratsu, Shizuka and Elruda. Marcus would grin to Elruda a bit, “Hehehe, you’re a popular little midget now aren’t ya?” Despite her obvious rejection of the motion, Marcus would still pick her up by the waist and begin to lift her to sit her on his shoulder as if she was 3 or something. The freakish Kage was a bit stronger than his looks portrayed.

Of course, Marcus wasn’t as rude as he would seem. He looked to Shizuka and looked her over for a moment. It took a long moment as he had knelled to look her in the eyes then he would reach up and begin to feel on her ears, “Oooooooooooo so soft. Morde never lets me do this. Heheheheh” Ok… maybe he was that rude.

He had come up, interrupted the entire conversation and then messed around with each and every one of the people there… oh wait, not yet. He would stand and take Shinratsu’s hand “Donkashan(I’m spelling that miserably bad but its basically hello) Hehehe, looks like you got a midget infestation. Care for some company?”

Marcus would reach into his bag and pull out some grilled squid and a meat kebab with a piece of candy at the back end like a ‘prize’. He would hand the squid to Shinratsu and the kebab to Shizuka “There’s food and candy in it for yo~~~~~~~~u”.

Twisted Dodge Ball Location: Village

A game of dodge ball that’s really not fair in the least bit. By having a Hyuuga and an Uchiha be the ball throwers, everyone else has to dodge their attacks. Get hit 3 times and you are O.U.T. OUT!
DC: The Throwers will be tossing multiple balls. If you are targeted, you have to beat their Attack DC.
Tries: Get hit 3 times and your out of the game.
To get prize: Survive and get all manor of prizes.
Fail and get 5 XP per ball you dodged and 1 HP per hit you take.
Special: Users can block attacks for others, spending one of their 3 hits for the other person.
Also, people who are fast enough can take others to dodge out of the way of the attacks.
Simply add both DB after any ninjutsu/ability additions and if your DC is 1.5x the Attack DC, both of you dodge. If it is less, the one attempting to assist takes the hit.

[[s**t, I need to pay more attention. I thought Shin was a bit older. Hehehe. Oh well]]

Marcus looked to them. Apparently he was the only pillar of age here and he sweatdropped a bit. Hmmm this was of no good. Sides, it’d cause a lot of trouble but either way, he didn’t mind. He would smile to each of the kids and soon look to Elrude.

She… kissed him. He blinked a bit with his normal vacant glance and looked to her, “Oro? Ummm for what?” Marcus had forgotten already and decided that it didn’t matter. He would reach up and ruffle her hair completely out of decency, “Bah, whatever. Don’t sweat it chibi-chibi. Hmmmm yea I like that. You’re Chibi-chibi now.” He would snicker a little and then hear the Mandarin.

Turning a bit back to Shin he looked him over a bit and then tilted his head to the side. His face showed that he didn’t understand a word the boy was saying but… upon hearing the arigatou gozaimasu… his eye began to twitch a bit. Reaching over to the boy, he would begin to drill his knuckles into the boys head a little.

“Hey kid. What is the big idea of being so formal around me? I know you from somewhere do I not? Try it again, this time with no babbling.”

[[I can’t find a good translator. T.T soooo just pretend he’s speaking in Mandarin. Sorry.]]

He would then smile to the boy and nod a bit. “I’ll forgive you this time though.” He then looked on ahead to the rest of the festival. “Well now, enough about this. Let’s go have some fun ok midgets?”

He would begin to lead the children to the rides and games portion of the festival. There were several rides that had been assembled for the week long event. One of the most distinguished (and controversial) was a rollercoaster that had been set up. It was so large that it had to be set up outside the village wall. No one was quite sure how the behemoth ride got placed up in such a short amount of time (it was up in a single night) but still, it stood there. At around noon each day, it cast a shadow over literally half of Iwagakure. Marcus smiled to the kids and looked to them, “Wanna go for a ride?”

"Nothing much really...Being lazy and without a team as usual, all though my oddball family as been nagging and pressuring me to become more active as a ninja." He couldn't really blame them, by now he could of been a Chunin and probably have his own team to compete against gigs. But you know what they say, haste makes waste... "How abo-...oh dear." Katagi would witness the events unfold, Marcus would call Elruda a midget and all hell broke loose. "I'm here...you know...Tsuchikage-sama..." Katagi would mumble quietly to himself as a dark cloud of depression would loom over him as he wasn't invited or given food by the kage...was he that invisible? Maybe his hair was too white that it made him look like an old person? Shinratsu's hair was nearly the same color, what made it different then? "Is...he touching that poor girl ears? Our kage is a pervert...isn't he?" Katagi thought to himself, he could suggest the younger ones to come with him, but alas he had no money to even buy anything for himself.

Elruda huffed. "I'm NOT a chibi!"

"Oof!" Said Shin (expression: @_@) as knuckles grounded into the sides of his head. A weak mumble. "Sum rumex..." I am sorry... But soon enough the Kage got his wish and rather mutely, the children began following - Elruda not having much of a choice there though she didn't seem to mind...he following but stopped and waited for Shizuka to come along...

Along the way, suddenly curious...Elruda inquired to Shin, who was eating his squid. "...Mandarin and not dialect, formal greeting and 'zhǔhou' huh...?" Zhǔhou formally referred to the nobility: with five divisions in descending order, gong (equivalent to duke), hou (marquis), bo (count), zi (viscount), and nan (baron). Rank-wise, the royal families like Senju and Uchiha in Konoha or the ruling Fujiko family in Ame would be referred to as gong - Hyuuga would be referred to as hou and the other families of the Konoha Twelve in the ensuing order of descent. Though as the indigenous noble family to the area long before Senju had settled, Elruda's family were referred to formally as gong-hou - they might not have participated in the founding directly but was referred to as an ancient family from the area before Konoha even existed and eventually officially gong by reference; when one of their family took the Kage seat.

Then that means...without a doubt now, the necklace with Shin's. Must be some sort of heirloom pendant. "So Shin-kun's family is from the aristocrats...? And since there's no accent...you're a native speaker, too..."

"Oh...you understood...?" The boy laughed, albeit nervously. It was unexpected to say the least that there would be ones to understand his native tongue here... "Hou in Kiri, gong in Yuki. My family moved to Kiri around...seven hundred years ago. Well...anyhow, Chinese was my clan's native tongue. We spoke Japanese just to settle in - in Kirigakure no Sato." A pause. "So you are a speaker too?"

Elruda sweatdropped. "Eh-heh...well...a little...well...yes, Hyuuga are natively Chinese...but well..." And finally, hung her head. "...I ran away from the language lessons you see..." She admitted. "There were too many...too many..." She muttered, shuddering. As much as she had a penchant for learning languages, who gives what the teachers praise or think...she found the lessons a pain - a PAIN!

Shin grimaced. "I don't blame you...native and local tongues aside, there's Latin - demand to learn the root classical tongue...Spanish...French...German..." He began counting off the more esteemed tongues the aristocratic children were forced to learn...and then the vague languages Elruda could've sworn were dead! Egyptian? How many did Shin learn...?

"Exactly." Muttered the girl. "Why do we need to learn so many anyways? Tch. Most speak Japanese nowadays..." A pout as she puffed out her cheeks again. But then, a nonchalant shrug. "Anyways, as far as Chinese goes...I can read...mostly...aw, come on Shin-kun you got to admit the traditional calligraphy is not fun to learn - and well, understand what you just said but ehm...speech is a bit problematic..." She scratched her head sheepishly.

Turning her head slightly to face Marcus... "So Marcus-jiji suffered language lessons too - woah! That wasn't there the other day before!" But the question ended in surprise at the sight of the roller coaster.

It would begin to rain candy...raining candy? What kind of festival was this? "Candy? W-Woah!" As he would turn around in reaction of the nudges the pony gave him, he would be scooped up onto the back of the Pony. "T-thanks!" Katagi Thanked the pony as she carried him on with the group. There was nothing but silence as the pony carried the older Genin on her back, until a question popped into Katagi's head. "You must know a lot about Marcus-sama right? If that's the case then would you or he know about our last Tsuchikage? What happened to her?" It's not like he hates the current Tsuchikage but it juxst felt odd how she just vanished out of no where.

Red was quiet. She looked back to the boy then sighed a bit. “Well… we’re not sure. To be honest… Marcus just got a message one day asking him to come home. When we got here… he was made Tsuchikage… as far as we know, she just up and vanished… But… Marcus wasn’t close to her or anything… they knew each other as far as I know but that’s about it…” She soon began to gallop to catch up with the rest of the crew.

At the coaster, she would begin to pout a bit, “Waddaya mean no horses allowed!? I’ll have you know I’m the Tsuchikage’s horse thank you very much!”

“Ok ok Red. Calm down. Hehehe, you know you can’t ride this. We’ve had this talk before. Watch over the candy and our stuff ok?”

The horse grumbled a bit and looked away. “Fine… meany. When I get bigger, I’m gonna make the biggest, bestest roller coaster only for horses and not let you on! So THERE!”

Marcus sighed a bit and looked to Katargi then grinned. “You like candy huh? Might wanna eat that fast and empty your pockets. It’d be a shame if all your stuff fell out while we were going through a loop. “

[[You know, i logged on earlier and said 'I'll post after work' and now i get back and i had to read so much! crying . NEVER wait until after work... ]]
[[Haha no worries, even though Shadow's higher level he's a pacifist and wouldn't really fight, so you could treat him like an academy student XD ))

Shadow kept a grin up as the boy spoke, he didn't feel a need to justify himself at all. The boy had taken Shadow calling himself honored as being snobbish, however Shadow wasn't lying when he said it. He was honored to be a shinobi of the Leaf, in the same way that he was honored to be here in the stone. If that made him seem a spoiled brat, then so be it. He also wondered for a moment if any of the others had actually taken the time to give a prayer to the fallen Shinobi of Iwagakure like Shadow had [Bwaha i knew that would play in my favor later on]. He almost wanted to bring it up, but at last moment decided against it. They seemed plenty fine hating him, who was he to take that away? With his smile still up, he began to open his mouth to throw another childish comment, however before he could do anything he was cut off by choking on a piece of cotton like candy. As his eyes went big he suddenly started laughing his a** off at the next series of events.

Haha shorty! I like this guy! He said while choking on laughter and candy. The events were so interesting that he didn't even mind the boxes on his head, even though it made him pretty much a foot rest. He looked up at everyone getting on a ride and just grinned. He slowly stepped back away from the Hyuga woman and headstrong boy who liked to jump into arguments without knowing things. That and he was partly interested at the box on his head. He bobbed it off his head and caught it with his foot, without opening it yet, instead just examening it and letting everyone else go on towards the ride. He was more into the idea of games and competitions than rides. Maybe running along side the ride and throwing eggs at those two kids... Hmmmm...

[[Sorry i missed some things, there was so much to read i just sort of skimmed posts <.< ]]